He beamed at Lew, as if mischievouly withholding the final line of a joke.
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That's not my typo. That's how it's spelled in the text so get off my case.
I don't know what the final line of his joke could be. "In Austria, there is plenty of game. So much game in the forest that men are hired to beat the bushes with sticks, scaring the game toward the men holding rifles. When the game reaches the men holding the rifles, they slaughter the game indiscriminately. Ha ha ha!"
Was that the joke?
Oh, I get it. The joke is that Archduke Ferdinand is describing regular hunting but with a sly wink and a nod about how he wants the "game" to be "Hungarian immigrants."
I still say he should just drop this whole conspiracy to hunt the world's most dangerous animal schtick and just become a Chicago policeman.
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